For the reason given by Doctorow in the linked article: If you put a CC license on your work, its explicit message is, “I want you to re-use this.” Not “I am a

For the reason given by Doctorow in the linked article: If you put a CC license on your work, its explicit message is, “I want you to re-use this.” Not “I am a pedantic asshole with a fetish for well-formed attribution strings.” The point of CC is not to teach the world to write attribution strings: it is to facilitate sharing and re-use. If you are a good-faith user of CC licenses, then your response to an incorrect attribution string should be a request to correct it, not a threat to sue for $150,000 in statutory damages.